AtomicQuote

Sydney Smith Quote

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Tags: desert, talent, you

Related Quotes

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Stephen King

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Tags: chambers, dark, deschain, desert, gunslinger, jake, king, man, roland, stephen

As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will...

Anonymous

As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will...

Tags: account, allah, deeds, desert, disbelieve, hell, mirage, nothing, pay, swift

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...

Anthon St. Maarten

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...

Tags: buying, consumer culture, consumerism, consumption, deprivation, desert, despair, emptiness, excess, happiness

A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

Tags: adversity, blooming, blossoming, challenges, daisy, desert, flower, inspirational quotations, inspirational, inspirational about life

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

Moonshine Noire

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

Tags: beat generation, depression, desert, dystopian, empty, endings, endurance, hollow, love, nihilism

A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.

Tags: adversity, bloom, blossom, challenges, desert, flower, greatness, life quotations, life, life and sayings

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!

Tags: camel, camels, civilisation, climate change, climate change denial, climate changes, desert, desertification, deserts, ildan wisdom

7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn...

Rebecca McNutt

7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn...

Tags: adult, bounce, businessman, canada, car, cherry, childhood, desert, diner, growing up

Vast skies in the Australian desertwaves that don't movewe slide surf glide like condors

Martin Stepek

Vast skies in the Australian desertwaves that don't movewe slide surf glide like condors

Tags: australia, desert, mindfulness

The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.

Steven Magee

The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.

Tags: description, desert, enforcement, good, law, south, southwest, usa, west, wild
About Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric. Besides his energetic parochial work, he was known for his writing and philosophy, founding the Edinburgh Review, lecturing at the Royal Institution and remembered for his rhyming recipe for salad dressing.